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The March for Our Lives was a student-led nationwide protest to end the gun violence epidemic. The event was led by Never Again, a group created by students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Everytown for Gun Safety and Giffords Courage supported students who organized marches. At the march in Washington, D.C., students affected by gun violence from across the country shared their communities' experiences and advocated for gun law reform....
The March for Women’s Lives was a march in Washington, D.C. that was first and foremost a march for women’s rights, and they particularly marched in support of abortion rights. The demonstration was on the National Mall and was attended by between 500,000 and 1.15 million people. It was put on by a number of groups, including Planned Parenthood, NOW, Black Women’s Health Imperative, Feminist Majority, NARAL, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, and the...
The Maruti Suzuki Workers Union, the trade union of Maruti Suzuki's Manesar factory, has been fighting against the injustices laborers are facing for nearly a decade. This started off from merely campaigning for the formation of the trade union, which was faced with strong resistance from the company and the Indian labor union,. They denied the shameful working conditions, horrible working hours, and frequent taunting by the managers that was present in the workplace....
Requesting a ballot to be voted on by the people of North Carolina, the NC We The People Campaign supports an amendment to the constitution that would take big money out of politics.
On December 11th, 2017, Inside-Outside Alliance (IOA) sent surveys in to every detainee in the Durham jail for over 30 days asking them questions about their concerns in the Jail and what they’d like to see IOA do about it.
Some responses to the survey were published on their website and included in the next issue of their newsletter, Feedback #37, which was sent into the jail, so that inmates could read each other's responses. Here are some of the responses published...
Food & Water Watch, along with dozens of other organizations, helped form the New York Campaign to Save the EPA. The mission of the campaign was to defend the EPA from assaults by the Trump administration and Congress.
On November 26th, 2016, a demonstration was held in Rome by the members of Non Una Di Meno. It fell purposefully on the day after the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Several groups joined them, such as Io Decido (I decide), a pro-choice group, “D.i.Re.” Donne in Rete (Women’s Network), a network of organizations against gender violence across Italy. The group of over 100,000 people marched through the streets of Rome, from Piazza Esedra...
The act regulates emission of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide from smokestacks of coal-burning powered plants in North Carolina
The act regulates emission of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide from smokestacks of coal-burning powered plants in North Carolina
Around 5 am on October 2007, a group of 50 Greenpeace activists illegally broke into Kingsnorth power plant in Kent, England. The group split up into teams, each of whom targeted a different area. Their various "monkeywrenching" activities included immobilizing the conveyor belt and then chaining themselves to the machinery, climbing the 200 meter smokestack and then painting the word "Gordon" (after the Prime Minister of the time) on the chimney, and using an...